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ByRichelle SteynJun 23, 202516 mins

“When values-aligned actors begin to acquire digital works from the Art Stoke Commons ecosystem, they don’t just support individual artists – they validate a new logic of cultural production. Each successful Hive becomes a proof-of-concept. Each replication, a new node in a growing network of islands of coherence. If it works in South Africa where the wounds of inequality and…

Why South African Digital Art Needs Its Own Space

ByRichelle SteynJun 9, 20254 mins

“In a country where the need to rewrite the past is still urgent, digital art should not be reduced to tokenized pixels. It should be part of a national cultural ecosystem that allows truth, disruption, and ordinary complexity to emerge.”

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The buyer of Beeple’s NFT artwork “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” was Vignesh Sundaresan, a cryptocurrency investor and the founder of the Metapurse NFT project. The artwork was purchased for $69.3 million at Christie’s in March 2021, making it the most expensive single non-fungible token (NFT) ever sold. Sundaresan bought the artwork under his pseudonym […]

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ByRichelle SteynAug 13, 20238 mins
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Timekeepers of the Anthropocene: Digital Art in the Grammar of Ancestral Time

ByRichelle SteynNov 24, 20254 mins
Tewame Tiyolicha Kawitl: Timekeepers of the Anthropocene (invites us) to rethink how we hold time, and how digital art might become a vessel for repairing its ruptures. The colonial and industrial eras (of the Anthropocene) imposed a linear, extractive temporality—one that measures productivity rather than reciprocity, acceleration rather than attunement. It is this regime of time .. that has destabilised the planet’s climate and our collective nervous system.
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